"And That Is How You Drive A Car"
Please enjoy and review!
Takuya was chatting up a pretty brunette girl when he spotted his sister dragging TK with her over to him and he chuckled as he looked them over.
"Damn, did you land yourself in the dog house?" he chuckled.
TK pouted at him while Dai walked over to the girl just as a waitress walked over holding a tray of lotuses out to them.
"Would you like another?" she asked.
Takuya went to grab one, but Dai took the tray and smiled at the waitress.
"We'll take the whole tray if you don't mind." She said flashing a smile.
"Of course." The waitress nodded before walking away.
As soon as she was gone, Dai's smile dropped and she slammed the tray over Takuya's head making him cry out and hold his throbbing head while the girl he was flirting with walked off and TK covered his mouth to not laugh.
"Hey, what the hell was that for?" Takuya demanded.
"Huh, I'm beginning to like this gal even more." A male voice said
"Huh? Who just said that?" Takuya asked as he looked around.
"Over here honey." A female voice said making him look at his sister's hands after she set the tray down.
His eyes went wide as the fog cleared his mind to see the Caduceus was in his sister's hand, the snakes on it alive as they hissed.
"You found it. where was it?" Takuya asked taking the weapon from his sister and held it in front of his face to look it over in awe.
"It was behind a slot machine." Dai shrugged.
"Which makes me wonder exactly how Hermes lost it in the first place." TK said.
"Oh, that's easy. A few months ago Hermes was making a delivery here and lost it on the way." The male snake hissed.
"It isn't the first time he's done this. My, thankfully he never lost us in the Underworld." The female snake laughed softly.
The trio looked blankly at each other before the two males sighed and the Princess of Thieves groaned.
"Let's find Matt and the twins so we can get home and kill Dad." Dai growled.
She then stormed off into the club to locate Matt, Koji and Koichi as the boys ran after her.
As they were walking, TK saw that the waitresses and the man from the front desk were all watching them as a few security guards started walking into the club.
"Guys, I think we're being watched." TK whispered making the children of Hermes stop and look over to where the blonde was looking.
"Aw, man. TK, go get the digimon and our stuff now. We'll meet you at the car over there." Takuya said pointing at the car that was spinning on the mini stage waiting to be won.
Nodding, TK made his way through the crowd to get upstairs to get the digimon and their bags before he was caught by the guards.
"Oh, I smell two Ares kids and an Apollo kid that way." The male snake hissed as he lifted his head up to the right.
"Thanks buddy." Takuya smiled.
He and Dai then made their way in that direction to find the twins and Matt were just laughing as they sat down on a couch, all three eating the lotuses.
Koichi was the first to notice them, or Dai to be exact, and stood up happily to hug the girl who was stunned by the sudden action.
"Daisuke, there you are. I was worried you went off and got married to TK. That would have made me very sad." The son of Ares confessed.
"What is it with the stupid flowers making you guys crazy?" Dai muttered.
Koji, who would have rolled his eyes at that if he were his normal self, just smiled as he took a bite out of his flower.
Takuya rubbed his face, then thought of something to snap Koichi out of his stupor.
Smirking, he then said; "It's nothing really. Koichi and TK both just love you."
Koichi then gasped as the haze in his mind cleared away and he pulled off of Dai who looked a bit surprised from this new information, the male's cheeks burning in a blush.
"Takuya, you weren't going to say anything." He said.
"Well, I had to think of something to wake ya up." Takuya shrugged.
Typical of a son of Hermes.
"Takuya, that wasn't fair. Koichi and TK should have told me this. Speaking of, why didn't you tell me?" Dai asked Koichi who blushed and looked down nervously.
"Well, I…I didn't know if you liked me or not. I just thought you'd be more interested in TK since you guys have known each other longer." He said.
Shaking her head at this, Dai placed a hand on Koichi's cheek making him look at her as she then rose up and kissed his cheek.
Koji snapped out of his haze as he witnessed this, the prophesy coming to mind about the part of when one of them would get their hearts broken.
Koichi was blushing again as Dai pulled back and gave him a small smile.
"I like you, really, I do. I just never thought about dating because TK already broke my heart by constantly flirting with Kari in front of me and then laughing at my faults. He is one of my closest friends though and I'd like to keep it that way. I don't know if I like you that way or if I can ever like TK like I used too, but just give me some time to figure this stuff out, OK?" she asked.
"I will and thank you." Koichi smiled as he brushed Dai's bangs back.
"So…how did we get here again?" Koji asked making Takuya, Koichi and Dai look at him and blink.
"When did you wake up?" Takuya asked.
"When I saw Dai kiss Koichi. Now what happened?" Koji demanded.
"We're in the Lotus Eaters lair and Dai found the Caduceus." Takuya explained as he held the weapon out.
This made the twins both go wide eyed at the sudden news while Matt remained in his daze and had drifted off to dance with a group of girls.
"We're in the Lotus Eaters lair? Who knows how long we've been stuck in here. Weeks could have gone by." Koji growled as he threw down the flower he was eating.
"Come on, we need to get Matt." Takuya said.
"I'll get him." Koji said as he picked up a cup of water.
The trio watched in worry as Koji walked over to the blonde, grabbed his shoulder and quickly turned him around, splashing the water in his face.
Matt looked very mad at that moment.
"What the hell, Koji?" he demanded.
"The flowers were drugged. We're in danger. Come on." Koji explained dragging Matt over to the group.
"Wait, what? What's going on? Where is TK?" Matt asked looking around in worry.
"He went up to the room to get our things and the digimon. We need to move before the guards get us and find us awake." Takuya said.
As they turned to go, they were stopped by a guard who reached out and grabbed Dai, holding her against his chest with a gun held to her back.
The males all stopped as they glared at the men who arrived.
"Is there a problem here?" the man holding Dai asked.
"No, not at all." Koji said.
He then quickly ran over and kicked the gun out of the man's hand, then chopped at his hand holding Dai to free her.
The fight then started as the guards ran at the Half-Bloods, Dai flipping one guard that ran at him and let him ran into the other.
Koichi tripped one guard and then punched another in the stomach while Takuya used the Caduceus to hit one of the men over the head to knock them out.
"Start running!" Takuya yelled.
They all started making their way to the car where TK and the digimon were waiting on the group, Takuya pulling the driver's door open.
"What happened in here?" Tokomon asked.
"Long story, talk later." Matt said.
Koichi and Koji were still fighting the guards going all out and proving themselves to be the Princes of War as they fought, Koji using a pool cue to knock most of the men back.
"What are you doing?" Tsunomon asked.
Takuya was under the steering wheel working the wires.
"I'm hotwiring the car. What do ya think I'm doing?" he quipped.
"We're stealing a car?" Dai asked.
"Are you that surprised?" Takuya asked.
"…Good point." Dai sighed.
The headlights then came on as the engine reeved, so the group quickly got inside the car, the twins running over and diving inside the car.
As the men ran over to them, Takuya slammed his foot on the gas pedal and drove forward, the men running out of the way.
Inside the car, the Half-Bloods and digimon all cried out as they held on to their seats or in Dai's case, hugging the three digimon to her chest since she was in the passenger's seat.
People screamed as they ran and jumped out of the way as the car swerved its way around the casino until it finally drove right through the glass windows.
Glass shattered around them as Takuya swerved right into the street and drove off down the road as the others in the car yelled.
"And that is how you get out of a casino. That is how you drive a car." Takuya said.
Everyone then groaned at that, Demiveemon looking at the Caduceus he held in his paw and saw the snakes moving.
"Oh, is this Papa Hermes' weapon?" he asked.
"Yeah, that's it." Koichi said.
"Now we can finally go home." TK groaned as he leaned back in his seat.
Looking out to where the digital billboard that was flashing the name of a famous casino, it also showed the date of the day which made his eyes widen.
"Guys, look over there." He pointed.
They all looked except for Takuya who kept his eyes on the road.
He already stole a car; he didn't want to get in trouble for driving without a licence or crashing the car.
"It's July 3rd." Koichi gasped out.
"Wait, we've been in here for five days?" Tsunomon asked.
"Well, we did sleep through that time. What about you guys? What did you do?" Tokomon asked.
"Later." The Half-Bloods all said.
(Two days later…)
Finally after driving and flying over the ocean, the group made it back to camp Half-Blood and walked through the gates of the camp, some random kids around spotting them, Grover seeing them and then ran off to inform Chiron.
"Moto bene, yay!" Zoe cheered as she ran over them.
"Hey, you made it back." JP laughed.
"Are you guys OK?" Taiki asked.
"We will be as soon as we go to sleep." Takuya said.
Matt, TK and Dai were holding Gabumon, Patamon and V-Mon who were all sleeping soundly from the hours of flying and running.
As for the six heroes, they all looked dead on their feet from the journey and they hadn't even done much other than fight two monsters and some guards.
Percy then walked over to them, Ryo trailing behind him.
"Hey guys, welcome back." The son of Poseidon greeted.
"Ryo, you're here too?" TK asked.
"Yep, I got here a week ago. I was wondering when I'd see you guys again. So how'd the mission go?" Ryo asked.
Takuya held up the Caduceus making everyone cheer at this as Grover and Chiron walked out and came over to the group.
"Congratulations on completing your first quest. Now, let's return this shall we?" Chiron suggested.
Afterwards, after Hermes was yelled at by not only his snakes but his son and daughter who went on the quest, the six went to bathe and then fell asleep in their beds.
With their quest complete, Dai now had a personal matter to deal with; whom to choose as her boyfriend.
Koichi or TK.
This was going to give her such a headache.
To be continued…